God's ReCreation
by the Rev. Yme Woensdregt
Have you heard? Are you ready?
Is it marked on your calendar?
Yes! The Diocese of Kootenay is getting together this summer for a time of learning and fun for all ages. The theme is God's ReCreation. The theme speaker is Bishop Mark McDonald (the National Indigenous Bishop), a charismatic and thoughtful speaker. We'll have workshops...BBQ's...free time...time to sing and hike and relax...time to catch up with old friends and make new ones...time for adults and children.
When? August 14-17, 2008
Where? Castlegar, at Selkirk College
More information coming to parishes and in the HighWay.
Mark it in your calendars now. Join us!
Parish with a Mission
photo catherine hall 
TRUCK LOAD — Stephen and Joshua Dwyer assist Wilf Akerlund in loading the Truckload Outreach at St. Andrew's. Joshua Dwyer was baptized at the Easter Vigil.
by Catherine Hall
Parish of St. Andrew, Kelowna
The challenge was to fill a truck with food. During Lent the parish of St. Andrew's in Kelowna marked off a section of the narthex with traffic cones. The object was to collect enough food to fill a pick-up truck owned by parishioners Bev and Wilf Akerlund. The food was for the Kelowna Drop-in Centre, which provides meals and a variety of services to the homeless and unemployed in Kelowna.
Parishioners brought large bags of rice and pasta, cans of tomatoes, beans, coffee and coffeemate in order to restock the Centre's kitchen after its recent renovation.
The parish has an ongoing relationship with the Drop-in Centre. For seven years members of the parish have prepared and served one luncheach month at the Centre as a way to provide relief for the kitchen staff and extra support to this important outreach in the city.
On the Sunday after Easter members of the parish loaded boxes and bags and filled the big red truck for its journey to the Drop-in Centre. The truck was full, and the challenge was accomplished.
Bluegrass alive and well
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TAKING THE COLLECTION — Jamie and Isaac Turgeon-O'Brien
by Val Johnstone
Parish of St. Mary United/Anglican, Sorrento
An appreciative audience of about 100 people enjoyed an afternoon of Bluegrass Gospel music on February 16 at St. Mary's Angilcan/United Church in Sorrento. Local musician Chris Stevens, wife Suzanne and six-year old daughter Saro kept everyone's toes tapping. Chris has his own recording studio and is well known in the localcoffee house circuit and for his own involvement with the Bluegrass Workshops held each summer at Sorrento Centre. Proceeds raised at this event went to "Bluegrass for Seniors", a cause that the Steven's family supports by taking their travelling road show to various seniors' facilities in the Shuswap Area.
